Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-02-13 05:57
orchestr wrote:
> She is too afraid to play with a strong airstream because
> she's afraid of the squeak, but it may be the weak air that's
> causing the squeak. Vicious cycle.
I empathize with her. FWIW, I went through the same thing, but I wasn't 13 or 14, I was a grad student studying with the principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra (Anthony Gigliotti). It really was paralyzing me and frustrating him. The chirps went away immediately when I started using double lip (at his suggestion) and eventually, after several weeks of playing double lip, I went back to single lip with no return of the squeaks. To this day I can't really tell you what I was doing wrong, only that whatever it was must have been incompatible with double lip.
I wish your student the best - there are few things more frustrating than the anxiety this can cause.
Karl
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